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arlingtonnationalcemetery. upon his passing, former president ronald reagan called him one of the most beloved and compassionate american statesmen of this or any other century. i would wholeheartedly echo his sentiments. john sherman cooper was everything you would want in a public servant. a rare combination of high intelligence, sound judgment unquestioned probity, and notable achievement. he was also a man who we can all rightly feel proud to call our own, a kentuckian through and through and a man for whom the term statesman seems an understatement rather than an exaggeration. thank you very much. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute,

arlington national cemetery. upon his passing, former president ronald reagan called him one of the most beloved and compassionate american statesmen of this or any other century. i would wholeheartedly echo his sentiments. john sherman cooper was everything you would want in a public servant. a rare combination of high intelligence, sound judgment unquestioned probity, and notable achievement. he was also a man who we can all rightly feel proud to call our own, a kentuckian through and...

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together for many years until her passing in 1985. he followed her in 1991 and was buriedinarlingtonnationalcemetery. upon his passing, former president ronald reagan called him one of the most beloved and compassionate american statesmen of this or any other century. i would wholeheartedly echo his sentiments. john sherman cooper was everything you would want in a public servant. a rare combination of high intelligence, sound judgment unquestioned probity, and notable achievement. he was also a man who we can all rightly feel proud to call our own, a kentuckian through and through and a man for whom the term statesman seems an understatement rather than an exaggeration. thank you very much. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> you are watching american history tv. 48 hours of programming on american history every weekend on c-span3. follow us on twitter at c-span history. for information on our schedule on the up

together for many years until her passing in 1985. he followed her in 1991 and was buried in arlington national cemetery. upon his passing, former president ronald reagan called him one of the most beloved and compassionate american statesmen of this or any other century. i would wholeheartedly echo his sentiments. john sherman cooper was everything you would want in a public servant. a rare combination of high intelligence, sound judgment unquestioned probity, and notable achievement. he was...

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american foreign relations annual meetinginarlington, virginia.we spoke with professors, authors, and graduate students about their research. this interview is about 20 minutes. >> maria cristina garcia, a professor at ithaca, new york or you focus a lot on immigration, post-world war ii, cold war era. what you tell your students at this conference? them that probably everything they know about immigration is probably wrong. a bit of mythology about immigrants and our immigrant history. in my course list, i try to tackle that mythology and try to help them discern what is true

american foreign relations annual meeting in arlington, virginia. we spoke with professors, authors, and graduate students about their research. this interview is about 20 minutes. >> maria cristina garcia, a professor at ithaca, new york or you focus a lot on immigration, post-world war ii, cold war era. what you tell your students at this conference? them that probably everything they know about immigration is probably wrong. a bit of mythology about immigrants and our immigrant...

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meetinginarlington, virginia.we spoke with professors, authors, and graduate students about their research. this interview is about 20 minutes. >> maria cristina garcia, a professor of american studies at cornell university in ithaca, new york. you focus a lot on immigration, post-world war ii, cold war era. what you tell your students at this conference? maria: i tell them that probably everything they know about immigration and refugees is probably wrong. we have quite a bit of mythology about immigrants and our immigrant history. in my courses i try to te

meeting in arlington, virginia. we spoke with professors, authors, and graduate students about their research. this interview is about 20 minutes. >> maria cristina garcia, a professor of american studies at cornell university in ithaca, new york. you focus a lot on immigration, post-world war ii, cold war era. what you tell your students at this conference? maria: i tell them that probably everything they know about immigration and refugees is probably wrong. we have quite a bit of...

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. i was on the hallowed groundsofarlingtontodayto see the canadian cross of honor erected in 1930 by our government in those majestic fields to honor the 3,000 americans who died in world war i serving with canadian units. and the heroics of the devil's brigade continue. our joint defense of north america through norad, korea where tommy prince served in the battle of kapyong, in the korean war. in afghanistan, where the 40 americans who died serving alongside canadians in kandahar are held as close to our chest as the 158 men and women we frost that dangerous province. and today our royal canadian air force and our soldiers from the jtf 2, the successor unit to the devil's brigade, are serving in iraq in cause of freedom and alongside our allies and friends like those in the united states. so it's my honor to represent canada here today to thank you for recognizing these special, special veterans and allowing us to remember the service and sacrifice their unit remembers. thank you very much. [ applause [ applause ] >>> ladies and gentlemen, please stand at the chaplain of th

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.toarlington, virginia.jonathan, welcome. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. i'm not a member of peta but i'm glad there's an organization out there standing up for these magnificent animals. i want my grandchildren to experience these animals. i'm afraid between deforestation and hunting, that these animals are not going to be around for my grandchildren to enjoy. thank you. >> couldn't have said that better myself. that's why we're here. >> what's the status, particularly in zimbabwe, of animals like lions? >> well, the fish and wildlife service in october of 2014 asked that they be listed as threatened. a particular official status really is not the issue. all of the animals there are endangered from these kinds of canned hunts. these kinds of trophy hunts. that serve no purpose other than to stroke the ego of these overblown, overprivileged people who get some bizarre pleasure out of blowing animals away. most people want to enjoy nature without killing the animals that live in it. >> on twitter, irish eyes twee s s the zimbabwe environmental minister says palmer violated

. to arlington, virginia. jonathan, welcome. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. i'm not a member of peta but i'm glad there's an organization out there standing up for these magnificent animals. i want my grandchildren to experience these animals. i'm afraid between deforestation and hunting, that these animals are not going to be around for my grandchildren to enjoy. thank you. >> couldn't have said that better myself. that's why we're here. >> what's the status,...

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the society for historians of american foreign relations' anymore meetinginarlington, virginia-- and you will meeting in arlington, virginia -- annual meeting in arlington, virginia. james graham wilson, who is the author of a new book on reagan and gorbachev but you are also the historian for the state department. what is your job? i am one of wilson: a number of historians for the state department. we work on a project called the united states series which is a congressionally mandated, officials documentary record of u.s. diplomacy and foreign relations. we are currently working on 45

the society for historians of american foreign relations' anymore meeting in arlington, virginia -- and you will meeting in arlington, virginia -- annual meeting in arlington, virginia. james graham wilson, who is the author of a new book on reagan and gorbachev but you are also the historian for the state department. what is your job? i am one of wilson: a number of historians for the state department. we work on a project called the united states series which is a congressionally mandated,...

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lexington for her essay on the old schwamb millinarlington. julia?>> [applause] mr. birmingham: congratulations to you. let's give all of our top winners a hearty round of applause. [applause] well done and congratulations to you all. in addition to sponsoring the writing contest, in recent years pioneer has hosted u.s. history events. with these events, we hope by highlighting the major arrows of -- phases of u.s. history, policymakers will better appreciate the need for future generations to understand heritage. sadly, in massachusetts and across the country, this is not happening now. for instance, on the civics portion of the 2010 test, the nation's report card, only 7% of eighth graders to correctly identify the three branches of government -- who correctly identify the three branches of government. unlike in english and math and science, in which we are internationally competitive, when it comes to u.s. history and civics, massachusetts students are no longer the exception, but just the rule. for example, in 28 years of a civics contest, our students have never finished i

lexington for her essay on the old schwamb mill in arlington. julia? >> [applause] mr. birmingham: congratulations to you. let's give all of our top winners a hearty round of applause. [applause] well done and congratulations to you all. in addition to sponsoring the writing contest, in recent years pioneer has hosted u.s. history events. with these events, we hope by highlighting the major arrows of -- phases of u.s. history, policymakers will better appreciate the need for future...

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telephone. and they had a hookuptoarlington. so,they knew the exact moment, so the buglerinarlingtonalsoplayed taps. ms. swain: and she lived how long after he died? ms. miller: i think something like 37 years, it was an extraordinarily long time. i mean, he died in 1924 and she died at the end of 1961. ms. swain: and what was her life like? ms. miller: she spent all the rest of her life being woodrow wilson's widow. and she tried to ensure his legacy. she chose his first biographer. she controlled access to his papers very, very closely. she controlled how his image was portrayed. she wrote her own memoir, as i said, with her own spin on it. she collaborated with darryl zanuck who made a movie about wilson. she really had a tight rein on what he was allowed to do. but, to me, the most important thing that she did when she supported something that he had supported during his lifetime, the woodrow wilson commission, is it called? mr. cooper: foundation. ms. miller: foundation. and they helped create the united nations and they also collect these papers that arthur link and his team

telephone. and they had a hookup to arlington. so, they knew the exact moment, so the bugler in arlington also played taps. ms. swain: and she lived how long after he died? ms. miller: i think something like 37 years, it was an extraordinarily long time. i mean, he died in 1924 and she died at the end of 1961. ms. swain: and what was her life like? ms. miller: she spent all the rest of her life being woodrow wilson's widow. and she tried to ensure his legacy. she chose his first biographer....

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arlingtontodayto see the canadian cross of honor, erected in 1930 by our government in those majestic fields to honor the 3,000 americans who died in world war i serving with canadian units. and the heroics of the devils brigades continue. our joint defense of north america through norad, korea where tommy prince served in the korean war. in afghanistan where the 40 americans who died serving alongside canadians in kandahar are held as close to our chest as the 158 men and women we lost in that dangerous province. and today our royal canadian air force and our soldiers from the jtf 2, the successor unit to the devil's brigade are serving in iraq in cause of freedom and alongside our allies and friends, like those in the united states. so it's my honor to represent canada here today to thank you for recognizing these special, special veterans and allowing us to remember the service and sacrifice their unit represents. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen, please stand as the chaplain of the united states house of representatives, father patrick conroy, gives the be

arlington today to see the canadian cross of honor, erected in 1930 by our government in those majestic fields to honor the 3,000 americans who died in world war i serving with canadian units. and the heroics of the devils brigades continue. our joint defense of north america through norad, korea where tommy prince served in the korean war. in afghanistan where the 40 americans who died serving alongside canadians in kandahar are held as close to our chest as the 158 men and women we lost in...

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they laid to rest? ms.cook:arlingtonnationalcemetery. she is the first first lady to be buried there. ms. swain: and the only other is jacqueline kennedy, is that right? mr. gould: yes. as secretary of war, i think that's how he qualified to be in arlington cemetery. and then she got to be there because -- so -- ms. swain: so we want to spend a little bit more time understanding the personality of -- and what she brought to the role of the white house, first lady at the white house. you mentioned earlier that she was very intellectual and that even though she didn't go to college, she was self-educated. how important was this in shaping the role of first lady? mr. gould: well, she -- as i said earlier, she wanted to make washington the truly, the cultural center of the united states. this made people in new york very uneasy. and there were some newspaper columns saying, what is she trying to do. but washington at that time did not have a symphony orchestra, didn't have opera. and she wanted to bring those musical things here.but she also wanted to have the city generally embody

they laid to rest? ms. cook: arlington national cemetery. she is the first first lady to be buried there. ms. swain: and the only other is jacqueline kennedy, is that right? mr. gould: yes. as secretary of war, i think that's how he qualified to be in arlington cemetery. and then she got to be there because -- so -- ms. swain: so we want to spend a little bit more time understanding the personality of -- and what she brought to the role of the white house, first lady at the white house. you...

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helen taft's and her husband's first. where are they laid to rest? jane hamptoncook:arlingtonnationalcemetery. she is the first first lady to be buried there. susan swain: and the only other is jacqueline kennedy, is that right? lewis gould: yes. as secretary of war, i think that's how he qualified to be in arlington cemetery. and then she got to be there because -- so... susan swain: so we want to spend a little bit more time understanding the personality of -- and what she brought to the role of the white house, first lady at the white house. you mentioned earlier that she was very intellectual and that even though she didn't go to college, she was self-educated. how important was this in shaping the role of first lady? lewis gould: well, she -- as i said earlier, she wanted to make washington the truly, the cultural center of the united states. this made people in new york very uneasy. and there were some newspaper columns saying, what is she trying to do. but washington at that time did not have a symphony orchestra, didn't have opera. and she wanted to bring those music

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annual meetinginarlington, virginia.we spoke with professors, authors, and graduate students about their research. this interview is about 20 minutes. >> maria cristina garcia, a professor at ithaca, new york or you focus a lot on immigration, post-world war ii, cold war era. what you tell your students at this conference? them that probably everything they know about immigration is probably wrong. a bit of mythology about immigrants and our immigrant history. in my course list, i try to tackle that mythology and try to help them discern what is true and what is false about what they know about immigrants. conference, i am focused on the intersections of immigration history and foreign policy history. unfortunately, they feel even though they are intersected, they have not engaged in a conversation with each other for some time and they should. one could argue immigrants are the poster children of foreign policy. >> this is a personal story for you. maria: it is. i have always been interested in the experiences of immigrants and the refugees in particular. >> how often have you bee

annual meeting in arlington, virginia. we spoke with professors, authors, and graduate students about their research. this interview is about 20 minutes. >> maria cristina garcia, a professor at ithaca, new york or you focus a lot on immigration, post-world war ii, cold war era. what you tell your students at this conference? them that probably everything they know about immigration is probably wrong. a bit of mythology about immigrants and our immigrant history. in my course list, i try...

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. exceptionalism is not justice. billinarlington, texas.independent. hi, bill. >> caller: good morning. thank you for accepting my call. what i have to say is part of the -- the propaganda as to a suggestion for reform. and as a little bit of history, we can see there's always testing, drug testing and all those things across the various disciplines that's out there that provide public -- talking for example as an airline pilot or construction worker or even hospital employee. how is it that the police is able to get away with it by just giving a lie detector test three or four days later. thank you so much. >> i think you're right. it's interesting when you look at the police union contracts, there are some that say that officers can't be drug tested. there some are that don't allow for fitness for duty tests around physical tests or psyche evals. the officers can get a psyche eval but only if the union and city agree on the person conducting the spsyche eval. the union can just say we don't agree on anybody and prevent that from happening. there should be strong language that ensures office

. exceptionalism is not justice. bill in arlington, texas. independent. hi, bill. >> caller: good morning. thank you for accepting my call. what i have to say is part of the -- the propaganda as to a suggestion for reform. and as a little bit of history, we can see there's always testing, drug testing and all those things across the various disciplines that's out there that provide public -- talking for example as an airline pilot or construction worker or even hospital employee. how is...

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event and the scenes of the funeral with the widow, the march2arlingtonnationalcemetery. engraved on the national memory where they served as a dark backdrop to the tumultuous events that followed in the 1960's. most books on the assassination raise the question of who did it. that oswald do it. he did. or maybe the mafia. maybe the cia or fbi. the radical right wing businessman. those are favored subjects. i ask a different question. what did it mean. this is a large event. what did it mean in american life. what was its meaning for politics? what was the length between kennedy's assassination in 1963 and the events that followed, which by 1968 turned the nation on its head? end1960's represented the of the liberal era, which began in the 1930's with franklin roosevelt and the new deal. by 1968 the assumptions of the liberal movement that roosevelt, truman, stephenson, humphrey, represented,hnson those assumptions were in tatters by 1968. 1968 was a remarkable year. a wall street journal piece on the events of that year including, two important assassinations. senator kennedy and

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victims in my own townofarlington, virginiafound in a bust in a hotel.there there are gangs connected to central america and transnational crime that pursued this. >> in virginia? >> in virginia.and in northern virginia. throughout virginia there are cases of sex trafficking. even peoplere recruited out of their high school.lor and sometimes people of color and minorities. sometimes even not. li and then it's more prevalent other in places like florida or apple pickers in washington e pick state. but therewa some are migrant work workers for whom the conditions are sohuma severe that it's actually w human trafficking. >> what's going on in a state like virginia that there's this rade h sex trafficking trade happening? >> so the dirty little secret is an that men who buy women and girls for sex create the problem.ion i know that there's a distinction between prostitution at the adult level. and the most coercive forms of fficki humanng trafficking or child prostitution.t frankl but frankly it's not cool and it's not okay that males buy females for sex because that market crea

victims in my own town of arlington, virginia found in a bust in a hotel.there there are gangs connected to central america and transnational crime that pursued this. >> in virginia? >> in virginia.and in northern virginia. throughout virginia there are cases of sex trafficking. even peoplere recruited out of their high school.lor and sometimes people of color and minorities. sometimes even not. li and then it's more prevalent other in places like florida or apple pickers in...

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foreign relations annual meeting inarlingtarlington, virginia.we spoke with professors, authors and fraught students about they're research. this interview is about 20 minutes. >> maria kristina garcia, a professor on immigration. you're focusing on cold war era. what do you tell your students and what have you been telling your colleagues at this conference? >> what do i tell my students? i tell them that probably everything they know about immigration and refugees is probably wrong. we have quite a bit of mythology about immigrants and our immigrant history. in my courses, i try to tackle that mythology and try to help them discern what is true and what is false about what they know about immigrants. here at the conference, what i focussed on was the intersections of immigration history and foreign policy history. these are two fields that even though they are intersected, they haven't engaged in a conversation together for some time. they should because one could argue that immigrants are the poster children of foreign policy. >> and this is a personal story for you. >> my fa

foreign relations annual meeting in arlingt arlington, virginia. we spoke with professors, authors and fraught students about they're research. this interview is about 20 minutes. >> maria kristina garcia, a professor on immigration. you're focusing on cold war era. what do you tell your students and what have you been telling your colleagues at this conference? >> what do i tell my students? i tell them that probably everything they know about immigration and refugees is probably...

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tv was at the society for historians of american foreign relations annual meetinginarlington, virginia.we spoke with professors, authors, and graduate students about their research. soeve: keisha blain

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surviving veteran of world war i. on the day frank was laid to restinarlingtonnationalcemetery, vice president biden and i went to pay our respects. and we weren't alone. americans from across the country came out to express their gratitude as well. they were of different ages, different races, some military, some not. most had never met frank, but all of them braved a cold winter's day to offer a final tribute to a man with whom they shared a powerful conviction. that no one who serves our country should ever be forgotten. we are a nation, a people who remember our heroes. we take seriously our responsibilities to only send them when war is necessary. we strive to care for them and their families when they come home. but we never forget their sacrifice. and we believe that it's never too late to say thank you. that's why we're here this morning. today america honors two of her sons who served in world war i, nearly a century ago. these two soldiers were roughly the same age, dropped into the battlefields of france at roughly the same time. they both risked their own lives to save th

surviving veteran of world war i. on the day frank was laid to rest in arlington national cemetery, vice president biden and i went to pay our respects. and we weren't alone. americans from across the country came out to express their gratitude as well. they were of different ages, different races, some military, some not. most had never met frank, but all of them braved a cold winter's day to offer a final tribute to a man with whom they shared a powerful conviction. that no one who serves...

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meetinginnnualarlington. wespoke with professors and graduate students about research. this interview is about 15 minutes. >> cassandra good is the associated editor on papers of james monroe. she earned her doctorate at the university of pennsylvania. why is james monroe a significant player in american history? cassandra good: the first thing that people think of is the monroe doctrine, but he still has ramifications today, we joke at these papers that he is like force gone, he shows up -- forest gone -- gump. he shows up everywhere. if you look at the painting of washington crossing the delaware, he is there. the louisiana purchase, he is involved. 1812, he just gets in hand in so many moments the first 40-50 years of the country. >> why does he have a global view of the world? cassandra good: he was sent on appointmentplomatic very early on. he was not educated abroad, but he was sent to france by george washington and that was his first experience -- and then sent back to europe later traveling to several different countries. i think that that really impacted his idea a

meeting innnual arlington. we spoke with professors and graduate students about research. this interview is about 15 minutes. >> cassandra good is the associated editor on papers of james monroe. she earned her doctorate at the university of pennsylvania. why is james monroe a significant player in american history? cassandra good: the first thing that people think of is the monroe doctrine, but he still has ramifications today, we joke at these papers that he is like force gone, he shows...

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thomas mcqueen who writesfromarlington, texas,asking if we could discuss the lifespan of an individual from that era, and how common were boiler explosions or boat fires? is there evidence that the additional people brought stress onto the oilers or was the i'm to the boilers or was the explosion -- on to the boilers or was the explosion completely independent of the boat overcrowding? alan: those are great questions, and as i mentioned earlier, lifespans were measured in years rather than decades, usually less than a decade. there were a lot of hazards on the steamboats in the mississippi rivers. there a lot of snacks, steamboat boilers would explode, just problems in general. the cause of the explosion of the boilers have been debated ever since, but the cause that is the most credible to me is that because the boat was very top-heavy after it unloaded its cargo in memphis, with all of the men on the deck, that it caused it to careen from side to side as it was crossing these flood currents, and as it did that, it caused gaps in the water that was moving through these tubu

thomas mcqueen who writes from arlington, texas, asking if we could discuss the lifespan of an individual from that era, and how common were boiler explosions or boat fires? is there evidence that the additional people brought stress onto the oilers or was the i'm to the boilers or was the explosion -- on to the boilers or was the explosion completely independent of the boat overcrowding? alan: those are great questions, and as i mentioned earlier, lifespans were measured in years rather than...

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toarlingtoncemeteryand decorating the soldiers' gravesiteatarlington. shementions riding with benjamin to the soldiers' home and hospital. you know, some of the things that were very near and dear to her here were working with orphan asylum and with the hospitals, and she continued to do some of that while she was in washington, as well, visiting the hospitals and whatnot there, as well. but she also mentioned some of the other events and things that are going on in her diary. her artistic abilities, i think, come through again and love of flowers, so she mentioned making -- having the floral arrangements for several different banquets and dinners. one was the pan-american conference of all the north and south american countries coming together, meeting there. she mentions doing the decorations there for that, as well. and this was a dinner at the arlington in washington, d.c., and you can see the table setting at quite a large group. we have the vice president, the president, and where the different delegations were sitting at that particular dinner. she also talks a lot abou

to arlington cemetery and decorating the soldiers' gravesite at arlington. she mentions riding with benjamin to the soldiers' home and hospital. you know, some of the things that were very near and dear to her here were working with orphan asylum and with the hospitals, and she continued to do some of that while she was in washington, as well, visiting the hospitals and whatnot there, as well. but she also mentioned some of the other events and things that are going on in her diary. her...

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are yankees from the north and they do not know those forts. someone at a meetinginarlington, whichhas been taken over, says there's a young lieutenant in washington right now who knows everything about this two forts. so the call goes out to find weitzel and bring him right away. he shows up with these the wigs -- bigwigs of the federal government. they ask what he knows, and he asks what do you need to know? i knows exactly how to take the two forts because he knows their weaknesses. so they make weitzel the chief engineer of the mission against new orleans. this twentysomething has the key to unlock the two forts, if you will. a large contingent of ships, and the fleet sales around the tip of florida to a staging area just off the coast of new orleans. weitzel tells admiral farragut how to capture the forts. the plan was that admiral porter -- flag officer porter at the time -- would bomb the forts from several miles away with mortar ships and would reduce them to rubble, and farragut would sail his fleet right past. it did not work out that way. after two days bombing th

are yankees from the north and they do not know those forts. someone at a meeting in arlington, which has been taken over, says there's a young lieutenant in washington right now who knows everything about this two forts. so the call goes out to find weitzel and bring him right away. he shows up with these the wigs -- bigwigs of the federal government. they ask what he knows, and he asks what do you need to know? i knows exactly how to take the two forts because he knows their weaknesses. so...

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american foreign relations' anymore meetinginarlington, virginia-- and you will meeting in arlington, virginia -- annual meeting in arlington, virginia. james graham wilson, who is the author of a new book on reagan and gorbachev but you are also the historian for the state department. what is your job? i am one of wilson: a number of historians for the state department. we work on a project called the united states series which is a congressionally mandated, officials documentary record of u.s. diplomacy and foreign relations. we are currently working on 45 covering the reagan administration from things like the soviet union and central america and policies towards south africa and it is an exciting project to be working on and we are hopeful to have the first volume come out later this year. the start about ronald reagan's foreign policy. let's talk about ronald reagan's foreign policy. on one of theased most high profile summits that took place. was the all, why location for the summit -- reykjavik the location for the summit? james graham wilson: it would be a prelude f

american foreign relations' anymore meeting in arlington, virginia -- and you will meeting in arlington, virginia -- annual meeting in arlington, virginia. james graham wilson, who is the author of a new book on reagan and gorbachev but you are also the historian for the state department. what is your job? i am one of wilson: a number of historians for the state department. we work on a project called the united states series which is a congressionally mandated, officials documentary record of...

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historians of american foreign relations annual meetinginarlington, virginia.we spoke with professors, authors, and graduate students about their research. this interview is about 20 minutes. >> maria cristina garcia, a professor of american studies at cornell university in ithaca, new york. you focus a lot on immigration, post-world war ii, cold war era. what you tell your students at this conference? maria: i tell them that probably everything they know about immigration and refugees is probably wrong. we have quite a bit of mythology about immigrants and our immigrant history. in my courses i try to tackle that mythology and try to help them discern what is true and what is false about what they know about immigrants. here at the conference, i am focused on the intersections of immigration history and foreign policy history. unfortunately, they feel even though they are intersected, they have not engaged in a conversation with each other for some time and they should. one could argue immigrants are the poster children of foreign policy. >> this is a personal story for you. maria: i

historians of american foreign relations annual meeting in arlington, virginia. we spoke with professors, authors, and graduate students about their research. this interview is about 20 minutes. >> maria cristina garcia, a professor of american studies at cornell university in ithaca, new york. you focus a lot on immigration, post-world war ii, cold war era. what you tell your students at this conference? maria: i tell them that probably everything they know about immigration and...

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billions of dollars. general motors putthearlingtonplant,$1.4 billion investment to keep that plant competitive in the global economy. over and over again you see that type of capital expenditure by three member companies in the united states to keep those plants running, employing americans where they can create product for americans and consumers around the world. >> florida is up next. brian is waiting on our line for republicans. good morning. >> caller: good morning. what your last caller was just talking about, donald trump has brought up that ford themselves are building a $2 plus billion plant down in mexico. now i drive a ford mustang. previously i had a dodge ram which was assembled in mexico. i just bought a car battery for my car two days ago. made in mexico. it seems like these investments really are going out of the country more than they are staying here. i'd like to address that. >> i think there's no question that there's investment in mexico by all global automakers, and it's become a real power house in terms of automotive production. that helps the mexican econom

billions of dollars. general motors put the arlington plant, $1.4 billion investment to keep that plant competitive in the global economy. over and over again you see that type of capital expenditure by three member companies in the united states to keep those plants running, employing americans where they can create product for americans and consumers around the world. >> florida is up next. brian is waiting on our line for republicans. good morning. >> caller: good morning. what...

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first lady to date that's buriedinarlingtonnationalcemetery. jackie kennedy really wasn't appreciated for the things that she did. maybe that's because of her age. 31 years old. she was much younger than any of the first ladies that we've talked about so far today. those first ladies became first ladies mid-40s, late 40s, 50, 60. jackie was 31 years old. she was young. she was beautiful. she was raising and burying children. what could she possibly know? but she was very well educated, and she was very, very intellige intelligent. she spoke spanish, italian and french fluently. she wasn't really interested in politics, but she was willing to help with the campaign. what people need to realize is that when the campaign of 1960 was going on, she was pregnant and it made her active role kind of limited. but she did make calls for kennedy, and she did give speeches in spanish and italian. she recorded campaign spots in spanish, encouraging votes for jfk. there's jackie doing some speeches in spanish. about the 1960 election, jackie said, i cast only one vote, for jack. it is a

first lady to date that's buried in arlington national cemetery. jackie kennedy really wasn't appreciated for the things that she did. maybe that's because of her age. 31 years old. she was much younger than any of the first ladies that we've talked about so far today. those first ladies became first ladies mid-40s, late 40s, 50, 60. jackie was 31 years old. she was young. she was beautiful. she was raising and burying children. what could she possibly know? but she was very well educated, and...

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accomplishments.thearlingtoncemetery,ironic as it is, the former home of robert e the, you will find weitzel drive is one of the main roads leading to the cemetery today. at a gate on the east entrance to arlington cemetery, two columns erected. although his grave site in cincinnati is modest and humble, the army honored him in arlington cemetery. so that is right at an hour, and it's the whole story of godfrey weitzel and how he ended up leading the troops into richmond 150 years ago today. thank you very much. [applause] i'd be happy to answer any questions. yes, sir. >> i'm curious -- does anyone know what happened to cyrus comstock, the guy who was first in his class? mr. quatman: comstock ended up becoming ulysses s. grant's chief engineer on his staff, and comstock and weitzel ended up being paired together at the battle of port fisher. off the coast of wilmington, north carolina. they were two assault, christmas day of 1864 and january 15, 1865. weitzel led the first in december with comstock as grant's eyes and ears to watch what was going on. the first assault was unsuccessf

accomplishments. the arlington cemetery, ironic as it is, the former home of robert e the, you will find weitzel drive is one of the main roads leading to the cemetery today. at a gate on the east entrance to arlington cemetery, two columns erected. although his grave site in cincinnati is modest and humble, the army honored him in arlington cemetery. so that is right at an hour, and it's the whole story of godfrey weitzel and how he ended up leading the troops into richmond 150 years ago...

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relations annual meetinginarlington, virginia.we spoke with professors, authors, and graduate students about their research. , soon to bea blain at the university of iowa studying history. your research is looking at women on the margins. why? it has been interesting for a while, capturing the voices of women who -- you know, their voices have been lost. hidden in the cracks of u.s. history. i really wanted to excavate their stories. i wanted to help us better understand african-american history, the black freedom , the communist party. i won it to look at women most people had never heard of. paper -- what did you learn? ms. blain: so, that paper i shared based on the life of a woman -- i spoke about her. she is a working-class white woman from detroit. i spoke about the way she engaged in this concept of lacking to nationalism. forging alliances with asian activists in particular. part of it -- this particular panel were trying to think about ways these actors who we talk about working-class black women or working for black women, can be thought of as key political shapers o

relations annual meeting in arlington, virginia. we spoke with professors, authors, and graduate students about their research. , soon to bea blain at the university of iowa studying history. your research is looking at women on the margins. why? it has been interesting for a while, capturing the voices of women who -- you know, their voices have been lost. hidden in the cracks of u.s. history. i really wanted to excavate their stories. i wanted to help us better understand african-american...

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. he followed her in 1991 and was buriedinarlingtonnationalcemetery. upon his passing, former president ronald reagan called him one of the most beloved and compassionate american statesman of this or any other century. i would wholeheartedly echoed his sentiments. john sherman cooper was everything you would want in a public servant. a rare combination of high intelligence, sound judgment, unquestioned probity, and notable achievement. he was also a man who we can all rightly feel proud to call our own, a kentuckian through and through and demand for whom the term statesman seems an understatement rather than an exaggeration. thank you very much. [applause] >> joint american history tv next weekend as we look back 70 years to the atomic bombings of hiroshima and not the sake japan -- nagasaki, japan. our conversation includes harry truman's son. it was president truman who gave the order to drop the bombs in early august, 1945. we will the original film footage of atomic bomb tests in the new mexico desert and hear eyewitness accounts from key scientist as well as survivors.

. he followed her in 1991 and was buried in arlington national cemetery. upon his passing, former president ronald reagan called him one of the most beloved and compassionate american statesman of this or any other century. i would wholeheartedly echoed his sentiments. john sherman cooper was everything you would want in a public servant. a rare combination of high intelligence, sound judgment, unquestioned probity, and notable achievement. he was also a man who we can all rightly feel proud to...

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] announcer:inarlington, virginia,we spoke to students about their research. this interview is about 15 minutes. host: cassandra good is the associated editor on papers of james monroe. she earned her doctorate at the university of pennsylvania. why is james monroe a significant player in american history? cassandra good: the first thing that people think of is the monroe doctrine, which, obviously, still has important policy and ramifications today, but we sort of joke that he is a little bit like forrest gump. he shows up everywhere. if you look at the painting of washington crossing the delaware, he is there. he is in that painting with george washington. if you think about important , they in the 1790's louisiana purchase, he is involved. the war of 1812, he just gets his hand in so many moments in the first 40 to 50 years of the country. host why does he have a global : view of the world? cassandra good: he was sent on his first diplomatic appointment

] announcer: in arlington, virginia, we spoke to students about their research. this interview is about 15 minutes. host: cassandra good is the associated editor on papers of james monroe. she earned her doctorate at the university of pennsylvania. why is james monroe a significant player in american history? cassandra good: the first thing that people think of is the monroe doctrine, which, obviously, still has important policy and ramifications today, but we sort of joke that he is a little...

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arlington, virginia.professors,h authors, and graduate students about the research. this interview is about 15 minutes. >> keisha blain, a graduate of princeton, and you studied at penn state. the premise of your research is really working and looking at women at the margins. african-american women. why? dr. blain: i have been interested for a while in capturing the voices of women who have just -- their voices have been lost, and really hidden in the crux of u.s. history. i wanted to excavate their stories. i wanted to help us better understand african-american history, the lack freedom struggle, and the complexities of that struggle. i wanted to add to the discussion, beyond mainstream narratives of the civil rights movement, for example, or women's involvement. i wanted to look at women activist that most haven't heard of. >> what did you learn? dr. blain: in that paper, i life of aut the woman, a working-class black woman from this joy. i spoke about the ways in which she and gazed in the concept of black internationalism, primarily through the 1930's. forgingabout her work activi

arlington, virginia. professors,h authors, and graduate students about the research. this interview is about 15 minutes. >> keisha blain, a graduate of princeton, and you studied at penn state. the premise of your research is really working and looking at women at the margins. african-american women. why? dr. blain: i have been interested for a while in capturing the voices of women who have just -- their voices have been lost, and really hidden in the crux of u.s. history. i wanted to...